With the increasing importance of search in guiding today's web traffic, more and more effort has been spent to create search engine spam. Since link analysis is one of the m...
Implicit user feedback, including click-through and subsequent browsing behavior, is crucial for evaluating and improving the quality of results returned by search engines. Severa...
The correlation of the result lists provided by search engines is fundamental and it has deep and multidisciplinary ramifications. Here, we present automatic and unsupervised met...
Log data constitute a relevant aspect in the evaluation process of the quality of a search engine and the quality of a multilingual search service; log data can be used to study t...
Thomas Mandl, Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di ...
Modeling a user’s click-through behavior in click logs is a challenging task due to the well-known position bias problem. Recent advances in click models have adopted the examin...
Botao Hu, Yuchen Zhang, Weizhu Chen, Gang Wang, Qi...